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From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō.

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narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)

  1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
  2. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
  3. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

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  • Japanese: ナレーション (narēshon)
  • Korean: 내레이션 (naereisyeon)

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin narrātiōnem. By surface analysis, narrer +‎ -ation.

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narration f (plural narrations)

  1. narration (account; story)
  2. narration (literary device)
  3. (rhetoric) narration

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Middle French

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Etymology

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Latin narrātiō.

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narration f (plural narrations)

  1. narration (account; story)